Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Linus Walleij
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commit 93ee385254d53849c01dd8ab9bc9d02790ee7f0e upstream. The code for syncing vmalloc memory PGD pointers is using atomic_read() in pair with atomic_set_release() but the proper pairing is atomic_read_acquire() paired with atomic_set_release(). This is done to clearly instruct the compiler to not reorder the memcpy() or similar calls inside the section so that we do not observe changes to init_mm. memcpy() calls should be identified by the compiler as having unpredictable side effects, but let's try to be on the safe side. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d31e23af ("ARM: mm: make vmalloc_seq handling SMP safe") Suggested-by:Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>